Are you looking at buying or building a new home? Is this Greek to you? Me too. Here’s the gist of it: Across the board efficiency is listed in the latest batch of regulations for the “2016 code” in that all lights must be high-efficacy. Every light must be controllable with a dimmer, vacancy sensor, or other energy management control …
Tech Tips – The Benefits of Automation
Who doesn’t like being able to do something without having to get up? If you’re old enough to remember watching TV’s before there were remotes, you cringe at the memory of being the “channel changer”. TV’s have come a long way since then and so has automation. Now we can turn on and heat up the hot tub on our …
Lighting Control – Automate to Save
Is saving money and the environment a good reason to start? When you use lighting control to automate the lights in your home, you save. What exactly do you save? By using lighting control, you can lengthen the life of your bulbs. That means reduced electrical consumption, reduced landfill waste and a reduced carbon foot print. Here are a few …
The Variable Dimmer – What it is and Why you should use it.
One of our techs recently told me this about Variable Dimmers, “We can program a dimmer to execute an action with a double or triple tap function. For example, a double tap can execute a light scene or, activate security on a triple tap. Also, there are keypads that can program light scenes, security, audio and video.” Contact us to …